Just finished reading “Maelstrom” by Peter Watts. I just have to say that this book, one has to admire the level of detail Peter Watts goes into describing such hot topics as the evolution of Artificial Systems.

In this book we have a series of wildlife on the Interweb (called the Maelstrom on those times) that upon finding out that some specific kind of contents give them free and secure access (secure as in not being deleted) to move around Maelstrom. So, the seek everything there is to know about The Concept, and in order to be able to make a living continue using it they start generating information about The Concept. They don’t know what it is, they know that using it is beneficial for them… they don’t care. Wildlife in the Maelstrom doesn’t cooperate, they just survive, but thanks to The Concept they somehow start cooperating between themselves, start developing specialiced kinds of wildlife.

So, the wildlife decide that in order to survive, they have to somehow help The Concept in the real world so it never goes out of fashion. There is the small, non-important detail of The Concept spreading βehemoth through the world, and βehemoth contaminating large expanses of the world and the Firestorm following in their wake (every spot with an outbreak gets burned to hell in order to maintain the quarantine by the authorities). But it’s not their problem.

Eventually these disorganized large quantities of wildlife evolves and becomes Anemone, a group of specialized systems that function together and liked the name. They also are still convinced (as the Smart gels in the Starfish) that simple is good and complex is bad.

The improtant thing about this is that… doesn’t this remind you of something like… biological systems evolution with a way too fast clock-rate? I just can’t wait the day we get computers systems that can evolve themselves without us hacking intervening in it.

So here I stand, testing WordPress to see if i move my blog over here.

I actually like it a bit more here, since I feel more in control. There are many options and individual tweaks one can do here, everything can be changed some way or another in comparison to Vox. Also, you don’t need a wordpress account to comment here, which is GREAT.

I’m currently having issues trying to port my previous posts here, but will somehow hammer it out. Meanwhile, what do you think about me moving here? any suggestions?